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Best remembered for their disco smash "Fly Robin Fly," the Munich, Germany-based ensemble
Silver Convention was formed by producers
Silvester Levay and
Michael Kunze, debuting in 1975 with the LP Save Me and scoring a U.K. hit with the title track. After topping the American charts with "Fly Robin Fly,"
Levay and
Kunze recruited a trio of vocalists --
Linda Thompson (not to be confused with the same-named singer and wife of guitarist
Richard Thompson),
Ramona Wulf, and Penny McLean -- who began appearing publicly under the
Silver Convention banner; they were featured on the follow-up, "Get Up and Boogie (That's Right)," which was also a smash in 1976. While another single, "Telegram," proved a success that same year in the annual Eurovision Song Contest,
Silver Convention's popularity quickly faded, and by the end of the decade the group was no more. ~ Jason Ankeny